Timothy West - “The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.”

Zach Wamp - “But Hezbollah now has reared its ugly head in a way that threatens the entire free world. And they want, by their own charter and definition, the destruction of Israel and Christians. That is the truth. That is in their charter.”

Robert Towne - “Of course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.”

Howard Stern - “And rather than hide that, I would rather put that out on the radio and let someone see the full range of emotions. If you're going to be strong on the radio, you got to let it all out, even the ugly stuff. And you can't apologize for it.”

Goldwin Smith - “America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.”

Samuel Richardson - “Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.”

Robert Quine - “The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.”

Jon Postel - “If you're in charge of managing domain name space you should treat everybody who asks for a registration the same. Whatever that is - whether it's nice or ugly or whatever - just be fair, treat them all the same.”

Ennio Morricone - “I also used these realistic sounds in a psychological way. With The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, I used animal sounds - as you say, the coyote sound - so the sound of the animal became the main theme of the movie.”

Marla Maples - “What was a really private and nice relationship was judged and made to be something ugly.”

Anna Kournikova - “When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player”

Janis Ian - “It was long ago and far away, The world was younger than today, And dreams were all they gave for free, To ugly duckling girls like me.”

Tom Holt - “New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else.”

Heinrich Heine - “I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.”

Matt Groening - “It's a funny show. The characters are surprisingly likable, given how ugly they are. We've got this huge cast of characters that we can move around. And over the last few seasons, we've explored some of the secondary characters' personal lives a bit more.”

Joe Gold - “When they get a 50-inch waist and a gorilla butt, it's ugly looking - and I think bodybuilding has become ugly looking.”

Michael Giles - “Every generation's got to have somewhere to play. But of course I suppose the punk thing was just too ugly, and too aggressive, and too reactionary.”

Curt Flood - “If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.”

Siobhan Fahey - “I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars,and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people,and I think it's ugly.”

Ani Difranco - “God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.”

Charles Dickens - “Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.”

Honoré de Balzac - “Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.”